The truth about Larry Summers

Via Ezra Klein, it turns out that a story going around about potential Treasury Secretary Larry Summers--that in a memo he advocated increasing pollution in "under-polluted" third-world countries--is false:

So when Max Blumenthal writes that “Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries,” he’s lying. Either that, or he is guilty of gross journalistic incompetence for not researching the subject enough to know that Summers didn’t write the memo and that it didn’t earnestly argue for increased waste dumping.

Just for the record, I personally haven't formed an opinion of Summers--but I thought I might as well repost this here as a good internet Samaritan.